Subj : Esfahbod: State of Text Rendering 2024
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From : LWN.net
Date : Tue Jul 09 2024 05:00:06

Esfahbod: State of Text Rendering 2024

Date:
Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:48:57 +0000

Description:
On his blog, Behdad Esfahbod has published a lengthy and detailed look at the 
state of open-source text rendering.  It looks at the libraries available, 
application support, future directions, and gives a summary analysis of the 
ecosystem. In broad strokes, OpenType added support for color fonts , 
variable fonts , and the Universal Shaping Engine . The Free & Open Source 
stack supports all of these advances at the lower level, but application UI 
support has been slower to arrive. The Open Source text stack also gained 
enormous market-share when Android and Google Chrome fully embraced it. 
Looking forward, there is a Rust migration of the text stack underway, which 
will unify font compilation and consumption under a safe programming 
language. Incremental Font Transfer will enable streaming fonts to web 
browsers. And my proposed Wasm-fonts will enable more expressive fonts.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/981178/


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